Ann Nelson is shown posing for a photo as part of the 1988 Wayland Academy varsity tennis team. Nelson is a class of 1989 alumni from the school. She died during the terrorist's attacks at the World Trade Center. She worked on the 104th floor of the WTC as a bond broker for Cantor Fitzgerald.
If you listen closely on Sunday morning, you will hear the sound of Wayland Academy mourning one of its own.
The carillon bells in Kimberly Chapel at Wayland Academy will ring 10 times beginning at 7:46 a.m. in remembrance of the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The bells will ring in honor of Ann Nelson, a class of 1989 alumna, who was working on the 104th floor of the WTC as a bond broker for Cantor Fitzgerald.
"She was a kid with a positive outlook who liked trying new things," said Kris Boucher, Wayland's associate dean of admissions and college counseling. "She was always looking for adventures."
That search for adventure is what led her to Wayland during her junior year. Boucher said Ann learned about Wayland from a friend of her parents Gary and Jenette Nelson.
"She told them I got to go to Wayland," Boucher recalled, who was the athletic director at the time and coached her in tennis.
Ann was also on the ski team at the school.
"She was a genuine kid and pretty mature for her age," Boucher said. "She was proud about being from North Dakota but she was going to see the world."
Nelson was from Stanley, N.D. She attended Campus School in Minot N.D. before spending her junior and senior years at Wayland. She went on to attend Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. She also studied at the University of Cambridge in England and spent a semester on a study tour throughout China.
She had also traveled in Peru, Norway and Ireland.
Wayland honors Nelson in several ways. A bench honoring Nelson is in the courtyard of the library, a cross that was given to her parents made out of metal found at Ground Zero and there is also a memorial award that is given out in her honor.
"Every year a bouquet of flowers is left on the bench before anyone else shows up at the school," Sue Voigt, director of public information and publications for Wayland, said. "Somebody must know how they get there, but I have no idea. It's a mystery to many people."
The school will honor Ann Nelson on Sept. 12 at Kimberly Chapel at the request of her family. The date was chosen because Gary Nelson travels to New York every year to read Ann's name during 9-11 remembrance ceremony.
Voigt said that Jenette has only been to New York during November of 2001 and hasn't returned since.
"Jenette likes to feel like Ann is still with her," Voigt said. "She said she doesn't even visit her grave very much."
The Nelsons along with a friend of Ann's from Wayland, Suzanne Boggs Scherb, class of 1989, will speak during the program. There will also be school officials and staff presenting during the program and the Wayland Concert Choir will perform.
Some of Nelson's teachers will speak about her. Boucher said she is a girl they have never forgotten.
"She would light up a room," Boucher said.
tpederson@capitalnewspapers.com
May 17, 2006, New York Times, Hope, Saved on a Laptop, by Dan Berry,
For a long time, Ann Nelson's laptop computer remained dark.
An undated picture of Ann Nelson, who died on Sept. 11, 2001.
It had been returned to her family in North Dakota, along with the other belongings she left behind in that great city 1,750 miles to the east. She was 30, lively, working near the very top of the World Trade Center, and — you already know.
In the small town of Stanley, halfway between Minot and Williston, a fog thick enough to blur time's passing enveloped the Nelson home. Amid the many tributes to Ann, amid the grieving and the absence, it became hard to remember just when and how the laptop wound up in the basement of the one-story bank that the family owned.
There the laptop sat, for years, tucked away from sight in a black case. It was a Dell Inspiron 8000, bought shortly before Ann called home that day in early 2001 to say she had gotten a job as a bond trader at Cantor Fitzgerald — in New York! Soon she was living near the corner of Thompson and Spring, and working in an office 104 stories in the air.
Ann's parents, Jenette and Gary Nelson, say the laptop remained unopened because they are not computer savvy. But it was more than that, Mrs. Nelson admits. "To tell you the truth, it was just too painful."
Three summers ago, during an art class Mrs. Nelson was teaching in that basement, a couple of students showed her how to use the computer. After the class, she says, "I just left it there."
Who knows why never becomes someday, and someday becomes today. One day last fall — "when I got to feeling stronger," she says — Mrs. Nelson finally opened her daughter's computer. She pushed its power button and started by looking at the photographs stored in its memory.
Soon Mrs. Nelson was learning how to play the computer's games, including solitaire and hearts. These distractions both relaxed her and reminded her of the games she used to play with Ann. Somehow, this little black machine made Ann seem present, there beside her.
Getting lost in the computer became part of Mrs. Nelson's after-work ritual, though she never bothered to open a file that said "Top 100"; probably some music, she figured. Then, two months ago and who knows why, click.
What she found was a catalog of goals, humanly incomplete: a list that reflected a young woman's commitment to the serious, to the frivolous, to all of life. That night, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson sat down with the list, and were with their daughter again.
1. Be healthy/ healthful. 2. Be a good friend. 3. Keep secrets. 4. Keep in touch with people I love and that love me. 5. Make a quilt.
Mrs. Nelson used to sew all the time, until it simply became too hard to guide a needle properly with a joyous little girl frolicking in her lap. Then, when Ann grew older, mother and daughter decided to sew a tablecloth.
"I don't think we ever finished," Mrs. Nelson says, laughing. "She had to be doing 100 things at a time, and consequently some of them didn't get finished."
As for this goal of making a quilt, she adds, "I'm sure that I would probably have been deeply involved in this process."
6. Nepal. 7. Buy a home in North Dakota. 8. Get a graduate degree. 9. Learn a foreign language. 10. Kilimanjaro. 11. Never be ashamed of who I am.
"Ann was in many environments where being a girl from North Dakota may not have been the most sophisticated label to wear," Mrs. Nelson says, recalling that her daughter had traveled to China and to Peru, and had worked in the high-powered environments of Chicago and New York.
Even so, Ann always conveyed pride in who she was, who her parents were and where they came from — though never in a boastful way. "It's an important point about her personality," her mother says.
12. Be a person to be proud of. 13. Always keep improving. 14. Read every day. 15. Be informed. 16. Knit a sweater. 17. Scuba-dive in the Barrier Reef. 18. Volunteer for a charity. 19. Learn to cook.
By her late 20's, Ann had actually become a fairly decent cook. Still, her mother laughs in recalling late-night calls, like the one that began: "Mom, what's drawn butter?"
20. Learn about art. 21. Get my C.F.A. 22. Grand Canyon. 23. Helicopter-ski with my dad.
Then Ann Nelson's list repeats a number.
23. Spend more time with my family. 24. Remember birthdays!!!!
Birthdays loomed large in Ann's life. She would celebrate her birthday not for a day, but for a week — in part because her father's birthday came the very next day, in part because she was proud to have been born on Norwegian Independence Day — which is May 17, today.
"Ann would have been 35," says Mr. Nelson, who turns 65 tomorrow.
25. Appreciate money, but don't worship it. 26. Learn how to use a computer. 27. Visit the New York Public Library. 28. Maine. 29. Learn to write. 30. Walk — exercise but also see the world firsthand. 31. Learn about other cultures. 32. Be a good listener. 33. Take time for friends. 34. Kayak. 35. Drink water. 36. Learn about wine.
Ann was supposed to attend a wine class the evening of Sept. 11, in keeping with Nos. 13, 19, 31, 36 — the whole list, really.
After 36, there is a 37, but it is blank.
Mr. Nelson reads the list as an inventory of his daughter's values. "You don't see any Corvettes in the garage or any of those material things you might expect from someone that age," he says. "She recognized that you appreciate a few things and kind of live your life wisely."
Mrs. Nelson interprets the list as another way in which Ann seems to communicate with her when she is most in need. So, just about every day in a small North Dakota town, halfway between Minot and Williston, the screen of a laptop computer goes from darkness to light.
E-mail: dabarry@nytimes.com
[What follows was located by the dxbiz.org in the e-mail address]
Ann Nicole's Precious Top 100 List
By Ann Nicole Nelson
View this Author's Spotlight
eBook (PDF), 9 Pages
Price: Free
Download immediately.
Ann Nicole Nelson was one of the thousands of people killed in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Five years later, her mother, Jennette, is still coming to terms with the loss of her only daughter. Jennette recently found something that Ann left behind – a file on her laptop computer labeled "Top 100." It was a list of Ann's top life goals. This Book has the 37 entries she made before dying.
Her 29th wish on her wish list was to Learn to Write. I am publishing this book on her behalf to help her achieve her goals.
There is no cost to downloading the ebook. The cost of printing for the book is from Lulu.Com
This Brochure is about Ann Nicole Ann Nelson was one of the thousands of people killed in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Five years later, her mother, Jennette, is still coming to terms with the loss of her only daughter. Jennette recently found something that Ann left behind – a file on her laptop computer labeled "Top 100." It was a list of Ann's top life goals. Below are the 36 entries she made before dying. I had a surprising connection with Ann Nicole today
September 19th 2006. I was planting blueberry plants in my garden. I kept on thinking about Ann Nicole. I never watch news. With 3 small boys I watch only Nicklodeon at home. I was wondering why I am thinking about Ann Nicole. I am a clairvoyant and usually pay attention to new messages. So I went and looked on internet for news regarding Ann Nicole (Smith) assuming this is the girl who is the celebrity who had a tragedy in her family recently. I was touched to come across Ann Nicole Nelson and her list. I decided to honor her memories by planting one blue berry plant for each of her wish so I have made so far 36 plants with her wishes on a sticky note. I will upgrade these notes to weather proof paper. I will post some pictures of these plants later.
Hope, Saved on a Laptop
Reprinted By Vasu Brown
Published: September 19, 2006
In a small North Dakota town, a mother recently opened the laptop computer of her daughter, who died on 9/11. It had been returned to her family in North Dakota, along with the other belongings she left behind in that great city 1,750 miles to the east. She was 30, lively, working near the very top of the World Trade Center, and you already know. In the small town of Stanley, halfway between Minot and Williston, a fog thick enough to blur time's passing enveloped the Nelson home. Amid the many tributes to Ann, amid the grieving and the absence, it became hard to remember just when and how the laptop wound up in the basement of the one-story bank that the family owned.
There the laptop sat, for years, tucked away from sight in a black case. It was a Dell Inspiron 8000, bought shortly before Ann called home that day in early 2001 to say she had gotten a job as a bond trader at Cantor Fitzgerald in New York! Soon she was living near the corner of Thompson and Spring, and working in an office 104 stories in the air. Ann's parents, Jenette and Gary Nelson, say the laptop remained unopened because they are not computer savvy. But it was more than that, Mrs. Nelson admits. "To tell you the truth, it was just too painful."
Three summers ago, during an art class Mrs. Nelson was teaching in that basement, a couple of students showed her how to use the computer. After the class, she says, "I just left it there." meday becomes today. One day last fall "when I got to feeling stronger," she says Mrs. Nelson finally opened her daughter's computer. She pushed its power button and started by looking at the photographs stored in its memory. Soon Mrs. Nelson was learning how to play the computer's games, including solitaire and hearts. These distractions both relaxed her and reminded her of the games she used to play with Ann. Somehow, this little black machine made Ann seem present, there beside her. Getting lost in the computer became part of Mrs. Nelson's after-work ritual, though she never bothered to open a file that said "Top 100"; probably some music, she figured. Then, two months ago and who knows why, click. What she found was a catalog of goals, humanly incomplete: a list that reflected a young woman's commitment to the serious, to the frivolous, to all of life.
That night, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson sat down with the list, and were with their daughter again.
1. Be healthy/ healthful.
2. Be a good friend.
3. Keep secrets.
4. Keep in touch with people I love and that love me.
5. Make a quilt.
Mrs. Nelson used to sew all the time, until it simply became too hard to guide a needle properly with a joyous little girl frolicking in her lap. Then, when Ann grew older, mother and daughter decided to sew a tablecloth.
"I don't think we ever finished," Mrs. Nelson says, laughing. "She had to be doing 100 things at a time, and consequently some of them didn't get finished." As for this goal of making a quilt, she adds, "I'm sure that I would probably have been deeply involved in this process."
6. Nepal.
7. Buy a home in North Dakota.
8. Get a graduate degree.
9. Learn a foreign language.
10. Kilimanjaro.
11. Never be ashamed of who I am.
"Ann was in many environments where being a girl from North Dakota may not have been the most sophisticated label to wear," Mrs. Nelson says, recalling that her daughter had traveled to China and to Peru, and had worked in the high-powered environments of Chicago and New York. Even so, Ann always conveyed pride in who she was, who her parents were and where they came from though never in a boastful way. "It's an important point about her personality," her mother says.
12. Be a person to be proud of.
13. Always keep improving.
14. Read every day.
15. Be informed.
16. Knit a sweater.
17. Scuba-dive in the Barrier Reef.
18. Volunteer for a charity.
19. Learn to cook.
By her late 20's, Ann had actually become a fairly decent cook. Still, her mother laughs in recalling late-night calls, like the one that began: "Mom, what's drawn butter?"
20. Learn about art.
21. Get my C.F.A.
22. Grand Canyon.
23. Helicopter-ski with my dad.
Then Ann Nelson's list repeats a number.
23. Spend more time with my family.
24. Remember birthdays!!!!
Birthdays loomed large in Ann's life. She would celebrate her birthday not for a day, but for a week in part because her father's birthday came the very next day, in part because she was proud to have been born on Norwegian Independence Day which is May 17, today. "Ann would have been 35," says Mr. Nelson, who
turns 65 tomorrow.
(This article was originally published on May 17th 2006 By DAN BARRY)
25. Appreciate money, but don't worship it.
26. Learn how to use a computer.
27. Visit the New York Public Library.
28. Maine.
29. Learn to write.
30. Walk exercise but also see the world firsthand.
31. Learn about other cultures.
32. Be a good listener.
33. Take time for friends.
34. Kayak.
35. Drink water.
36. Learn about wine.
Ann was supposed to attend a wine class the evening of Sept. 11, in keeping with Nos. 13, 19, 31, 36 the whole list, really.
After 36, there is a 37, but it is blank.
Mr. Nelson reads the list as an inventory of his daughter's values. "You don't see any Corvettes in the garage or any of those material things you might expect from someone that age," he says. "She recognized that you appreciate a few things and kind of live your life wisely."
Mrs. Nelson interprets the list as another way in which Ann seems to communicate with her when she is most in need. So, just about every day in a small North Dakota town, halfway between Minot and Williston, the screen of a laptop computer goes from darkness to light.
E-mail: xchange@dxbiz.org
Ann Nicole Nelson’s Mom came across the above work and replied on December 28th 2006
Guest Book for Ann Nicole Nelson
nelson7@midstatetel.com <nelson7@midstatetel.com>
Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 7:39 AM
To: xchange@dxbiz.org
Message: Thank you for remembering Annie, and for helping her achieve her goal.--Mom
Vasu Brown, sometimes Dr. Vasu Brown, runs an "Ecurrency Exchange - Forex AutoTrading Program"
Mailing Info:
DxBiz ServicesVasu Brown is the author of a 14-page catalog of books on topics ranging from V
Sri Lakshmi Services35 Louis Street
Holliston, MA 01746
Phone: 508-361-5053
Fax: 508-276-0209
Remember the Dx Gold Days. There is a wonderful program now open which allows both customers and professional to make consistent income. I will be releasing a book about this later this year.
Finally our search for a perfect system is over.
Here are the few steps to start learning about this system.
Step 1.
Welcome to ZuluTrade where you can create a demo account and start trading Foreign Currencies immediately. You can test multiple signal providers and customize your trade signals.
Step 2.
Learn about Forex Robot and start autotrading Forex Market with as little as $50.
Step 3.
Next learn how to test your signal providers by this wonderful program about customizing your Forex robot with the Forex Robot Scam School - Customize your Forex Robot and create a great Trading portfolio
Step 4.
Become the best Signal provider and create a residual income for lifetime - watch for my upcoming book on this subject
Keep checking up for further details - which will be posted shortly
Best Wishes
Vasu Brown
Vasu Brown
More Detail
3 Laws of AbundanceBy Vasu K Brown, MD
eBook (PDF): $4.36
Download immediately.
There are 3 spiritual law of abundance to have a prosperous life as written in Vedic Scriptures. This book is the follow up on 3 Karmic Debts. Once our debts are paid there comes a stage of...
More Detail
Avatar: The Last AirbenderBy Vasu Brown
eBook (PDF): $10.01
Download immediately.
Avatar: The Last Airbender is co-created and produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko at Nickelodeon Animation Studios in Burbank, California. Like most recent animated series, it is..
More Detail
Uddhava Gita: The final teachings of Krishna & The lesser known companion to Bhagavad-GitaBy Vasu K Brown, MD
eBook (PDF): $8.63
Download immediately.
The Uddhava-Gita, which is embedded in the Bhagavata-Purana, mentions eighteen paranormal powers (siddhi) that are the product of sensory control, regulation of the life force (prana), and intense..
Vasu Brown
More Detail
Vedic Cosmology: Genesis or the theory of CreationBy Sri Lakshmi
eBook (PDF): $8.40
Download immediately.
This is the story of creation, the genesis, according to Vedic Cosmology or Hindu scriptures. The theory of evolution that is an integral part of intelligent design of a cosmic mind as interpreted by
More Detail
Indian Almanac - PanchangaBy Vasu K Brown
eBook (PDF): $2.63
Download immediately.
The Vedic calendar is called Pancanga. The word Pancanga indicates that the calendar consists of five parts, or tells about five elements. These elements are vara (the day of the week), tithi (the..
More Detail
Cancer Survival - How to GuideBy Vasu K Brown, MD
eBook (PDF): $8.99
Download immediately.
This book is to help people who are diagnosed with cancer - To answer the question "What else can I do to help myself survive?" Surviving cancer is more complicated than simply being sick
More Detail
The 3 Karmic DebtsBy Vasu K Brown, MD
eBook (PDF): $2.11
Download immediately.
Ancient Vedic scriptures describe the 3 debts we are here to pay during our lifetime. I came across these readings while pursuing my research for my medical book on Meridian Medicine. I briefly..
More Detail
The Garuda PuranaBy Sri Lakshmi
eBook (PDF): $9.99
Download immediately
Garuda Purana is in the form of instructions by Sri MahaVishnu to Sri Garuda (The King of Birds - a vahana of Lord Vishnu). This Purana deals with astronomy, medicine, grammar, and gemstone structure
Digital Xchange : Boring Ways to Learn the FX MarketBy Vasu Brown
eBook (ePub for Adobe Digital Editions): $13.99
Download immediately
This book is the first in the Boring Way series. Digital Currency Exchange or DX is Global Currency or Foreign Currency Exchange Market only done digitally or electronically. Find out how to get..
More Detail
Indian Diaspora in New JerseyBy Govinda Rajan
eBook (PDF for Adobe Digital Editions):$8.99
Download immediately.
Agraj Seva Kendra is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. It is organized for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes. Our mission is to preserve and promote Asian Indian culture..
Meridian Medicine Applications: Light Therapy on Meridian Points By Vasu K Brown, MD
eBook (PDF): $50.00
Download immediately.
Meridian based theories to treat various conditions are well known in different parts of the world. The Indian System for this Meridian Medicine is called "Nadi Vaithiyam" means Pulse
The Key of Solomon (Clavicula Salomonis) edited by S_ Liddell MacGregor MathersBy Vasu Brown
eBook (PDF): $6.48
Download immediately.
King Solomon had keys that may open the knowledge and understanding of magical arts and sciences like a key that opens treasure-house. He was given the power to rule Terrestial and Celestial things.... More >
More Detail
Currency Exchange - Income Generating Hedge Grid Forex Trading SystemBy Vasu Brown
eBook (PDF): $19.81
Download immediately.
The foreign exchange (currency or forex or FX) market exists wherever one currency is traded for another. It is the largest and most liquid financial market in the world, and includes trading between.Step 4.
Become the best Signal provider and create a residual income for lifetime - watch for my upcoming book on this subject
Keep checking up for further details - which will be posted shortly
Best Wishes
Vasu Brown
No comments:
Post a Comment